The Ceuta crisis will strengthen “Fortress Europe”
The EU has realised that, to preserve the Schengen Area, it is essential to harden the continent’s external borders
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Hans Kundnani
Hans Kundnani is an OSF Ideas Workshop fellow and the author of Eurowhiteness and The Paradox of German Power. He is also a New Statesman columnist.
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